Walk: The Path to a Slower, More Mindful Life

"Walking is man's best medicine." - Hippocrates

Walk invites you to explore the benefits that the simple act of walking and spending time in the outdoors can bring to our sense of wellbeing and meaning. Simple, free and one of the easiest ways to get more active, lose weight, and become healthier; walking is a great natural way to boost your mind, body, and soul. Traveling by foot is meditative as it fosters a slowness of thought as you become more aware of your surroundings. Learn how to change your speed, embrace the silence, and unearth the joy of walking without going anywhere through the chapters of this book.

Drawing on Sholto's extensive experience working with mindfulness-based practices, this book offers guidance and practical exercises for cultivating present moment awareness and bringing curiosity to the nature of our experience and the world around us. Walk aims to inspire you to move beyond the pages, step outside, and awaken your senses as you make walking part of your life.

Sholto Radford is a mindfulness teacher with a lifelong passion for the outdoors and walking. His background in health, exercise science, and psychology, as well as a personal practice of mindfulness mediation led him, in 2008, to begin working as a researcher at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. During his time there he also gained extensive experience and training in teaching mindfulness. In 2012 Sholto founded Wilderness Minds, combining his passions and leading courses and retreats with an emphasis on developing present moment awareness and well-being through time spent in the natural world and walking. He is a qualified mountain leader and from a young age has spent much his free time traveling and walking in the mountains of the UK, Europe, and the wider world.